Welcome to A Little Cornish Home. The blog about the renovation of a 1920's semi detached property in the heart of the Cornish countryside. From gutting the house and stripping it bare to rebuilding the house with DIY tips, step by step progress, Interior decorating and ideas along the way to make our little Cornish house our little Cornish home

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Working into the night... with no bathroom roof.

Planning to completely remove the bathroom roof and replace it in one weekend is a tall order for anyone. Yet asking my boyfriend and his dad alone to do this job is an even bigger ask, which meant starting work early and finishing late to try and get as much done in one weekend before going back to their day jobs.

Trying to renovate a complete house in evening and weekends is certainly hard work and very hard on relationships and family to but luckily we have a very strong relationship and a brilliant family of support making the build a lot easier.

Although using the bathroom tonight with just a tarpaulin and felt roof was a little chilly and not the highlight of my day! BRRRR

The boys working into the night to get the room at least a little watertight!

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A Little Cornish Home

Welcome to A Little Cornish Home. We are Amanda and James and together we are sharing with you our journey through moving to Cornwall and buying and renovating our first house. After renting property in Cornwall for 5 years and realizing just how much we were paying to our landlords in rent we decided to take the scary plunge into buying and renovating our little Cornish house.

With the plasterer paying us a visit last week the three exposed walls in the bedroom were now freshly plastered and drying beautifully a...

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If you would like to contact us we would love to hear from you. Words of encouragement, tips and ideas on renovating and style choices are much appreciated. If you have a product or service that you think will help our build drop us a line at alittlecornishhome@gmail.com